[MeshBox-radius] RE: Too many hits to wiana.org ?

[Mark M. <mar...@ne...>]

Yes, this is something we're currently discussing and working on (and we
hope that Jon will join us).  

A new Global authentication server(s) that will perform the local
authentication for the community, and mirror WIANA.  

A "MeshServer" if you will.  New MeshServers will be brought online and
added to the network, as current servers become congested.

We're currently working out ideas on a "demo" box.  Once we get
everything up and running (and secure), we'll work with Jon and others
in the community on hosting "mirrors" of the authentication server.

The servers will communicate with one another, and share/update local
databases.

We're also working on some ping triangulation software (for the
MeshAP/MeshBox distro), that will ping each of the global authentication
servers, and the one with the quickest response (being closest/least
congested) will become the auth server for that MeshBox.

If you wish to participate/help with the Auth Server effort, please send
me an E-mail (with your skills, experience, qualifications) and we can
add you to the developer's list.  (Send me your source forge screen
name).

You can join the Global Auth/RADIUS Server mailing list here:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/meshbox-radius

         Thanks,

          Mark

P.S. Jon, if you could message me off-list, I would appreciate it.  I'd
like to make sure that you're an active part of the list/discussion so
that we can make sure that the MeshServer is completely compatible with
WIANA.  We also have lots of questions concerning WIANA.  We just want
to make sure that everything is compatible with the current WIANA system
(and the MeshServer package would be a simple "upgrade/install").



-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Richardson [mailto:rri...@et...] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:38 PM
To: me...@li...
Subject: RE: [MeshAP] Too many hits to wiana.org ?


Aye, mayhaps something like NTP server structure (but better). 
Where Wiana is the central authority, and there is a tier of computers
that sync with wiana, and another tier of computers that sync with
those. 

Gnutella is an example of a highly disorganized and rather inefficient
network, but accuracy and redundancy is not an issue with file sharing
in most cases.

Given that it could get nasty if there is a mistake, we might want to
build a p2p hierarchy controller that analyzes latency and specific
needs of geographic locations and builds the hierarchy with some level
of intelligence. 
Projects like that are quite fun and could be done while sleeping by
many of the folks on the [Decentralization] list :)



-----Original Message-----
From: Nate G [mailto:rfg...@ya...]
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:58 PM
To: me...@li...
Subject: [MeshAP] Too many hits to wiana.org ?


Every few minutes this thing tries to contact
wiana.org

If every node out there with a internet connection
hits your server this many times you are going to be
flooded in no time.

The Gnutella network solved the central server problem
a while back through a more distributed means, you may
want to look at that.


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